Improvement in marking weather-boarding



@mitch tant @anni @fitte JOSEPH W. BAILEY, OF NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA.'-

Letters Patent No. 81,579, dated September 1, 1868.

IMPROVEMENT IN MARKING WEATHER-BOARDING.

Y 'IO ALL WHOM IT MAYV GONOERN:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH W. BAILEY, ofthe city ofNew Orleans, parishof Orleans, and State of- Louisiana, have invented a certain new,useful, and' improved Mode of Indicating theOverlapping Line of Weather-Boards, by marking the said line in a novel way; and I do hereby declarethe following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same,reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a partof thisspecification, and' which represent front and end views of twoweather-boards, 'as marked by my method.

In order that thegreat value and importance of my invention shall befully comprehended, it is only necessary to advert to the fact that, inthe operation of putting on weather-boarding,'as now universallypractised by carpenters and joiners, that part of each board that is tobe exposed, or shown to the Weather, as mechanics express it, has alwaysto be measured and marked' by hand. This is sometimes done just beforethe board is put into Vitsfplace on a wall; but usually, theboard isnai1ed to its place first, and the admeasurement is made afterwards. Ineither case, the admeasurement and themarking consume far more time thanis required to nail or fasteh-theboard upon the wall. Gauges,especiallyvconstruotcd and adapted to the purpose, are the implementscommonly employed to indicate the proper ladmeasurement, and thus tosecure a uniform width of exposure as to each and every board; Batinasmuch as no admeasurement, as a general thing, is ever made,4

excepting only at the two ends of the boards, uniformity is only securedthroughout the whole length of the sume when'the boards are perfectlystraight upon their lower edges. If aboard be sprung edgewise, as isnearly always the case, to a greater or less'extent, the .gauge has `tobe applied at its middle, or the result will be great irregularity ofwidth; and if the lap' 13e very-slight or narrow, it not unfrequentlyhappens that the veryintegrity of the Wall is destroyed by openingsbetween the boards.

f My invention saves all the time lost in the above-described way, andsecures perfectly-straight lines as to the edges of every board, andhence uniformity of width at every point, from one end of them te theother.

.It-consists simply of a mnrkingot" the boards, along the line-at whichthe lower edge oflthe next superior board is to be placed, either asthey are being sawed out of the log, or afterwards, when they are beingplaned,

by mc'ans of any proper tool :for making-a groove or otherplainlyvisibleinscription,longitudinally, which tool is connectedwiththe `saw-,mill or the planingfmachine, as the case may be; or, instcadofa groove or other equivalent impression, when the mark is madein theoperation of planing, a raisedline mayvery easily be substituted, by aslight gapor notch in thecutters of the machine; orrit may sometimes heexpedient to make the mark consist of the lower edge of a bevel that iscut in the act of planing the board.

I do not deem it .necessary to describe any particular mechanical meansor device for making the mark, nor my particular arrangement for theeffective adaptation or application of the same to the fulfilment oftheprescribed object, because I wish it distinctly understood that, whilstI lary no claim to the exclusive use of any lproper 'means forinscribing or producing the niark, perfor' any special mode of applyingsuch means, I reserve the liberty, which is my right, of employing anysufficient means, and to employ them in any eifective manner, byany'u-suul a'xrrangoment'or application. 'My invention docs not refer tothe means or instrumentalities for producing a mark, but it is themarking itself that establishes its value.

The mark may consist of a-series of punctures or ldots,as shown at tig.l, extending from one end of the boards `to the other; or of acontinuous groove, thus extending; or oi' a number of 'short grooves,with unmarked spaces between them. Any mark will answer that is deepenough not to be'oblit'erated by the planing of the boards, is distinctenough to be plainly visible throughout its entire length, so that thcprecise line at which the lower edge of the next upper board is to beplaced can be discerned. Both sides ot' every board should be marked, asshown at fig. 2, so that the best face and edge may always constitute,respectively, the outsideface and the lower edge, in their relations tothe wall. One mark will usually answer, butit may` sometimes bedesirable to inscribe or mark two, or even three, so that there may be agreater or less extent of weather-surface or lap,.vat the pleasure ofthe builder, accordingly'as varying circumstances may require anextension or diminution oi'- the same.

sims 2 l Having thus described my invention, und pointed out itsenormous economic merit inthe saving of time that is nt presentabsolutely lost in the practice of nii existing and heretofore-knownmethods of accomplishing tho same end, what I claim, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, i8-

The marking of weather-boards, in the manner herein described, duringthe operation of manufacturing them in the sew-mill, or afterwards,during the process of dressing them in the planing-machine, as and forthe purpose set forth.

J. W. BAILEY.

Witnesses:

H. N. JENKINS, H. J. DUssor..

